Bartaman Newspaper

Bartaman Patrika is an Indian Bengali language daily newspaper published in Kolkata by Bartaman Pvt. Ltd. Apart from the Kolkata edition, the newspaper has four other simultaneous editions, published daily from four major towns of West Bengal -- Siliguri, Burdwan, Malda and Midnapore. Bartaman is the second-most widely read Bengali newspaper in India after Anandabazar Patrika. The newspaper was founded by Barun Sengupta (1934-2008), a journalist of Calcutta in December 1984. Mr. Sengupta breathed his last on 19 June 2008 at Kolkata.